 cowsay
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(on Wikipedia)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/
Untested
I don't know if I'll ever care to replace Git on Windows with this, but it's noted here nonetheless.
aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
At best, my computer hangs when prompting for a password. I think this is related to the 4.4.14 kernel but have not confirmed this.
dm-crypt
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html
These instructions are a lot easier than they seem, and a smart and patient beginner will be able to follow them!
These notes were made on an everyday system with one hard drive which I completely formatted for this purpose.
This concept and these notes build a full-disk Slackware installation which also uses LVM. You can safely ignore the entire LVM post and just follow this one.
Todo - as-yet untested
This concept and these notes are entirely obsoleted by dm-crypt, if you want a complete encryption solution.
These notes were made from instructions from Slackware as of Slackware 14.2 64bit.
It's remarkably simple.
Problem: A USB stick cannot boot with any of Porteus, the boot-repair LiveUSB, or SystemRescueCD. It used to be bootable with Porteus, and before that it could boot with other Linux LiveUSB distributions.
Solution: unsolved
See also:
This was written 2015-05-13 and got stuck in my drafts bin. I'm pushing it out unedited.
(See My standard writing note)
Many Linux distributions don't want to modify upstream sources unless they have to.
That simplicity is both understandable and Bad.
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Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick >
A tool for booting multiple distributions from a USB stick.
Very easy to use. Except it does not work!
TODO - Make a proper page
TODO - Add my notes. They're in deep archives.
To get my Zaurus back in operating order, I did a lithium ion battery jumpstart.
If you get something like
bash: /usr/bin/program: No such file or directory
Then you've tried to run a 32 bit executable on a 64 bit distribution. You need to get 32 bit software.
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After taking another pass at a bunch of Linux distributions, I feel it's important to detail the most important things to me.
This can now be here to act as a kind of checklist for considering a distribution.
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Strongly tied with GNU software.
